dorsiflexed

Keep your shin muscles relaxed and youll eliminate any chance of landing with your ankle dorsiflexed.

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Sit on your heels with your toes on the ground and your feet dorsiflexed.

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A moulded poroplastic splint, which keeps the hand slightly dorsiflexed, adds to the comfort of the patient, but this should be removed daily to admit of movement and massage being employed.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

It is then best to correct the deformity either by wrenching the toe into the dorsiflexed position, under anæsthesia, and fixing it with a plaster-of-Paris bandage; or, when this is impossible, by excising the articular end of the metatarsal bone and interposing a layer of fatty or bursal tissue between the distal end of the metatarsal and the base of the first phalanx.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

The condition is easily diagnosed from congenital contraction by the fact that in the latter the proximal phalanx is dorsiflexed.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

# -- In this deformity the foot is dorsiflexed at the ankle-joint.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

By keeping the hand in the dorsiflexed position for a week or ten days, the bone may become fixed in its place and the function of the wrist be restored, but it is often necessary to excise the bone.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

_Backward_ dislocation is commonest, the injury resulting from a severe form of violence, such as a fall from a height on the palm while the hand is dorsiflexed and abducted.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

The first phalanx is dorsiflexed, and the second is plantar-flexed, while the third varies in its attitude, sometimes being in line with the second (Fig. 160), sometimes even more plantar-flexed, and sometimes dorsiflexed.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

The second and third phalanges are flexed towards the palm; the first phalanx is dorsiflexed, this being the reverse of what is observed in Dupuytren's contraction.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893